Monday 2nd September 1918

In Brigade reserve camp near Cavalletto.

Ptes. John Bundy (see 21^st July) and John Henderson (see 26^th August) were appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Pte. James Hillhouse (see 30^th May) was reported by Sgt. Wilson Allinson (see 26^th August), L.Sgt. Abel Roberts (see 27^th August) and Cpl. William Harry Hall (see 25^th August) for “hesitating to comply with an order; ie not putting on his puttees properly when ordered to do so”; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 1^st September) he was to undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.2.

L.Cpl. Dennis Waller (see 8^th August), who had been severely wounded in action a month previously while serving in serving in France with 2DWR, suffering a compound fracture of his left femur, underwent a second operation at 54^th Casualty Clearing Station. It was reported that, “wounds suppurating freely; temperature irregular; unduly rapid pulse; wounds granulating; posterior drainage established”.

L.Cpl. Frank Mallinson MM (see 19^th May), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported for “not complying with an order and insolence to a superior officer”; he was severely reprimanded but suffered no further punishment.

Pte. Frederick Fielden (see 14^th October), who had been in England since having been severely wounded on 20^th September 1917, dictated a new will; he had recently been re-admitted to Edmonton War Hospital due to ‘pain in the stomach and loss of weight’. His new will appointed one Ralph Ashton of Green Lane, Halifax, as his executor and bequeathed all his property and assets to his sister, Elizabeth Ann Fielden; thus denying his wife, Catherine, any rights to his assets. It would appear, from subsequent proceedings, that she had been estranged from him and she would be denied access to any further payments on account of ‘misconduct’.